Financial Empire w/ Daniela Gabor & Ndongo Samba Sylla
The Dig
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Colonial Control and Wealth Training
The focus of the book kicks in after 17 95, which is when revolutionary france adopts the frankas national currency. Thereis some kind of tight connection between regulating currency and regulating the economy more broadly. The colonial system was a particular way of mobilizing domestic resources but for the benefit of the metropole. But you you needed to have the fiscal and the monetary instruments.
Play episode from 17:12
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